Roberto Campos Neto, Brazil's Central Bank president, attends a ceremony at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, February 24, 2021. /Getty Editor's note: Andrés Velasco, a former president
Google today announced that it is rolling out Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC), a crucial part of its Privacy Sandbox project for Chrome, as a developer origin trial.FLoC is meant to be an alterna
Shares of Spotify are up a fraction this morning after the company announced that it will acquire Betty Labs, the company behind the Locker Room, which focuses on live audio. Prior to the deal, Betty
This year marks the 62nd anniversary of the democratic reform of Tibet. On March 28, 1959, then-Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai issued a State Council Order declaring the "d
A sign outside a vaccination center after Hong Kong suspended the COVID-19 vaccine from BioNTech due to packaging defects, in Hong Kong, China, March 24, 2021. /Reuters
00:59 African forest elephants and their savannah cousins have seen alarming declines in population over the past few decades.Experts worry that poaching and habitat destruction could
A backhoe tries to dig out the keel of the Ever Given, a Panama-flagged cargo ship, that is wedged across the Suez Canal and blocking traffic in the vital waterway, March 25, 2021. /AP The Jap
Orca Security, an Israeli cybersecurity startup that offers an agent-less security platform for protecting cloud-based assets, today announced that it has raised a $210 million Series C round at a $1.
Nigerian startup Xend Finance uses decentralized finance (DeFi) to address currency devaluation. DeFi aims to bridge the gap between decentralized blockchains and financial services. Aronu Ugochukwu a
Philippine troops killed an Abu Sayyaf rebel commander blamed for years of ransom kidnappings and on Sunday rescued the last of his four Indonesian captives, the milita
The coughing among the western lowland gorillas at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in January was the first warning sign. Soon the fears were confirmed: A troop of gorill
The study is likely to reignite the debate about travel corridors - expected to return in some form as restrictions are eased.
Google this week announced its was cutting the commissions it charges Android app developers who publish on its Google Play marketplace, following a similar move by Apple last year aimed at fending of
Amid all the news of the last few days, you might have missed that eToro, an Israeli consumer stock-trading service, is going public in the United States via a SPAC.Don’t worry about the SPAC bi
06:13 Editor's note: High-level officials from China and the U.S. are meeting in Alaska on March 18 and 19, the first face-to-face meeting under the Biden administration. While such a
Barely more than seven months after its most recent funding announcement, Yotpo is revealing that it has raised another $230 million in a Series F round that values the company at $1.4 billion (post-m
Unagi, the startup behind the portable, design-centric electric scooters, is launching its subscription service to six more U.S. cities in an expansion fueled by $10.5 million in funding.The startup,